After a review of the nature of the judgmental mind and how to practice with it, we consider how the perspective of neuroscience can inform our practice of transforming the judgmental mind, both those judgments that are more personal and those that are more social in origin.
An atmosphere of friendly acceptance helps us to stay present and engage in a clear, direct handling of experience in the body – rather than becoming a besieged and separate self.
Right effort is based on right view, discerning what we want to align the citta to, then absorbing those qualities like a sponge. There is an energy to these qualities that can be sensed and directly felt in the body.
